I have the base model M1 MBA and it works great as far as performance goes. I don’t do any development work on it, just the typical stuff of internet browsing,

I have the base model M1 MBA and it works great as far as performance goes. I don’t do any development work on it, just the typical stuff of internet browsing, looking at photos, some TV/movie watching. I remember at the time the consensus was that performance of 8gb on the M1 MBA was equivalent to 16gb on a Windows machine. Something to do with the architecture of the M1 making memory swap more efficient or something like that. So I think you’re overstating the importance of 16gb and 512gb for the average consumer.